Soviet nuclear reactors are equivolent to the plane-shaped shrines built by pacific cargo cults after WW2. Only difference being the Soviet reactors could fly and the shrines could not
"What happened in chernobyl? "The nuclear power plant was looted, on fire, looted again, broken, flooding, on fire, falling apart, looted again, walls collapsing, on fire, one more flooding and finish off with a fire." "And the last one was when it blew up?" "Oh no, i just stopped to take a breath, we are just halfway through the list until we get to the reactor blowing up."
Listening to the sheer amount of things being stolen during construction. Like in Czechoslovakia in those years. There was a saying: One who does not steal (state owned things), is stealing from his own family. During every construction material was "lost". Many family houses, cottages and huts were build with nobody asking where the material for their construction came from, yet everyone knew where they came from. It was absolutely "the norm" that a construction of any facility needed way more concrete, bricks, panels, etc. than was in the plan for said facility. Regardless if it was a power plant, culture house, school or hospital. The amount of raw materials used to finish any structure was much higher than what was actually physically used on the site. At least the structure to be built was finished within norms, according to plan, only the material consumption was way bigger. Not like some countries that placed empty oil cans into what were supposed to be reinforced concrete structural walls. Or even if not as bad, cutting costs by reducing the amount of rebar or changing material properties for cheaper ones. Because price was not relevant. Things were built to specifications and nobody had any incentive not to do so. Because nobody checked where and how material "disappeared" during construction. Raw material was being delivered until it was done according to plan.
In communism everything was common, so technically it was not a thief 🤣 It was in all socialist countires of EE. Many times it was that some things were not possible to buy even if you have a money. Economy of permanent deficit.
@@markusw7833 The seven wonders of Communist Socialism: 1. Everyone had a job. 2. Even though everyone had a job, no one was doing anything. 3. Even though no one was doing anything, the plan was fulfilled above 100%. 4. Even though the plan was fulfilled more than 100%, there was a shortage of goods and services. 5. Even though there was a shortage of goods and services, everyone had everything. 6. Even though everyone had everything, everyone stole. 7. Even though everyone stole, nothing was missing anywhere.
@@erikziak1249 These are fantastic. And very true. Saw it with my own eyes growing up in the USSR. We like to think capitalism and private enterprise is more efficient, but having moved to the US I can say it's a very optimistic over-simplification. More red tape exists in many areas vs the USSR even, there's stealing and profiteering on a vast industrial scale (while yes, not as much petty theft by the plebs), and there's plenty of dysfunction in private companies small and large. The US's vast industrial and economic might arises from protective geography and Mississippi giving cheap ocean trade route access to much of the inside of the continent, compounded by emerging unscathed & economically advantaged from the WWII, compounded by the Bretton Woods and Petrodollar enabling the Fed to print USD at will with near-0 fiscal consequence for decades, funneling it via DARPA to the likes of Boeing and Google to build an unmatched industrial, scientific, and military might. Even cultural influence was govt-sponsored (e.g. google "the CIA and Pollock"). Take away the impact of all that free govt money and FAT contracts of a federal agency rallying public money towards a multi-year plan (i.e. de-facto socialist financing), and the purely capitalist free-market private economy of the US would be the size of Spaine's - in a country the size of the US obviously it'd have been struggling - not going anywhere good or fast. USSR and the socialist system did have shortages, uninspiring consumer goods, lack of motivation for *some* folks (not all), but to say the US won thanks to the capitalist system is 90...95% bupkis.
Imagine trying to resign or retire, and when you hand in your resignation letter your boss tears it to pieces in front of you, and then tells you to get back to work. That's insane
Many people hugely underestimating how bad soviet system and communism was, 35 years after communism has collapsed there are still a lot of signs of that horrible system. And then there are few russians and russia simps that glorify this kind of bs. Unbelievable
Many people hugely underestimating how bad soviet system and communism was, 35 years after communism has collapsed there are still a lot of signs of that hor rible system. And then there are few russians and russia simps that glorify this kind of bs. Unbelievable p.s. ah yeah, youtube is deleting my comments, why not. I wonder what he is hating about this
It's not any more Soviet than Columbia and Challenger and Fukushima, Boeing MCAS, subprime market crash, etc. Human hubris and group-think compounding and compounding and compounding while they get away with it & nothing too terrible happens year after year, till several unfortunate things line up & it blows up in everyone's face.
@@murob2347 I think (as callous as it is to say that) the mechanism is valid. If nothing bad happens with something, our brains are programed to gradually take it more & more for granted, thus freeing up the attention and energy for new areas. We've all these disasters not because this mechanism fails us but because it works TOO WELL most of the time. Take Boeing MCAS - a terrible shortcut to save on pilot training, enabled by non-redundant AoA sensors - which delibereately were non-redundant b/c otherwise FAA review would flag this system as safety-critical and mandate pilot training anyway - defeating the "savings". So Boeing got caught on this one thing after a century-plus of doing this non-stop and only suffering the consequences a few times. Their competitors who did it by-the-book and didn't cut corners, weren't as competitive, and either Boeing now owns them or they're bankrupt.
We are all carrying Chernobyl inside us. I remember volunteering for an isotope body scan in high school for STUK (the radiation safety association of Finland) when I was 16. My cesium-137 levels were elevated and overall body radiation double the normal levels because we had eaten tons of sauces and foods made from local mushrooms the summer before. It was 15 years ago so the dose from that cesium has built up quite a bit compared to the average person.
I've tried looking for the paper they gave me specifying the isotopes out of curiosity, but I just can't find it. Also if anyone's interested, they came to our high school with a mobile scanner installed in a van (former ambulance or similar I guess) and wanted a boy and a girl from every year grade. They were doing a study on the effects of the chernobyl fallout on kids and teens in 2010 or 2011. It was like a bathtub looking thing with a massive chunky machine on top (big industrial gamma spectroscope I guess) and they made me lay down there for 15 minutes iirc. I haven't called them or checked their website tho, I think i might actually do that next 👀
Luckily for you, Ceasium 137 seems to have very poor bio-accumulation and a biological half-life of 70-110days, while yes you get a tempoary dose it won't stay forever in your body✌️
Fun connection: The Dark Side of the Moon contained a track called "Money" and it would seem that a lack of that was the main cause of The Dark Side of Chernobyl.
I have studied Chernobyl for years. I knew reactor 3 had a near meltdown, but I was not aware all the other accidents and/or stupidity happened there over the years. Probably because the focus is always on reactor 4.
I’d love to see you do a deep dive into the Kyshtym Disaster. It seems like all of the videos on RUclips are either dated or barebones. I love the details you provide so I understand if it may be difficult for you to dig into any Soviet archives from the 50’s.
lmao, btw love your vids, and I find it sad to see how badly your trip in Switzerland went. As a train enthusiast there, I always thought that Swiss Trains are quite accessible, but I guess I was wrong
Now this makes more sense: Another time, Tolya woke up suddenly, ran to a window that was cracked open, and said, “Look, the doors are open! They’ll loot everything, and we won’t be able to finish the reactor!” And I said, “Go to sleep. I’ll take watch.” He went back to bed, and again didn’t remember anything in the morning.
I feel like Yakity Sax should have been playing over the accident list. It’s amazing that anything got done! It’s kind of hilarious that the kgb were tapping the phones but they couldn’t stop some dorks from stealing the buttons and switches
I had exposure to the radiation from Chernobyl when the US Army wanted to make a show of force in Germany. We were out marching in the rain made up of the fallout from Chernobyl on May 1st 1986. The result is that I have a nodule on my thyroid as well as lesions on my head, neck and shoulders. The biopsy revealed that it is consistent with exposure to radiation. This happened in Regan’s peacetime Army. I’m being treated for it now. There are probably more people suffering from this same exposure. I was literally singing, “I’m a Radioactive” at the time. ☢️
Many are amazed when seeing the inside of Unit 4 after the disaster that all the buttons have been nicked. Hardly surprising when they were also getting nicked before the explosion as well. I'm surprised that it ever got to being opened when bit's of the building kept failing and corroding and bits being nicked even before it was in operation. How does an RBMK reactor explode? Comrade, it is hard to know why many more didn't and sooner. PS, would you like to buy some buttons that probably don't work as desired either?
And just like Valery Legasov said " because its cheaper" lol and that's why they didn't use properly enriched uranium in their cores because it was also much cheaper than doing it the right way.
Compared to radation-related deaths, more people have died indirectly from the stigma of Chernobyl stopping nuclear energy from being used more widely. Coal mining kills and gives illnesses to more per year than nuclear accidents have in all of human history.
@@CartoonSlug coal mining is a very dangerous line of work. I'm also not even accounting for how many miners get lung and skin diseases from working in mines. The amount of people who got radiation-related illnesses from Chernobyl and Fukushima is high and undetermined, but still much lower than the desths and illnesses from hundreds of years of coal mining that's guaranteed. Two major nuclear meltdowns, but how many coal mine collapses ans explosions have we had?
@@Ottobon One of the oddest charities I regularly donate to. I hope they get all those sweet fuzz balls out of there that can be adopted and implement population control for the rest.
I love your Videos! Chernobyl is my favorite theme of interest since i was a kid. My father was on several Work assignments lasting several weeks to work on the water supply and desposal of nuclear power plants in my country. Nuclear power in general and chernobyl are so fascinating. Where do you get your sources from? Your are uploading so many videos in a short time its amazing. I have been dealing with this for about 20 years and im still learning new rhings from you! How do you get all these informations from? Keep up the excelent work!
Hey! Thanks so much for your great videos and work! I was wondering if it would be somehow possible for you to share your source material, e.g. photos, videos etc? I would be happy to get in contact with you in person. I was always interested in the Chornobyl topic but have never encountered anywhere such an amount of unique material. Most of things I see in your videos I have never seen anywhere. So would be more than pleased to possibly get in touch and discuss this. Many thanks in advance!
@@thatchernobylguy2915 6 kV bus for two K-500-65/3000 indirectly means that you have zero physics knowledge bro... It is just a sum of Its capacity. xddd Can you imagine the cables? On 500 MW x2 run on 6kV? Bro for the love of god do some basics physics before you staŕt calling yourself history physics expert. You are feeding already uneducated plebes with further bullshit. Disgusting.
As per usual - TBB-500 is of course like all Its derivatives synchronous device. Running output is 20kV with margin at 26kV, this is then transformed into 500kV. From this there are further transformation lines into united system - 330 and 750 kV. You can say the safety margin is like 10% added in every circuit mentioned. Many of those generators are still running - from former East Germany to Far east Asia.
To me it has always been at big surprise that the Chernobyl accident could happen nuclear should come with a lot of precautions. But looking back and knowing the history of power plant it was just a matter of time before something catastrophic would happen
The systemic dysfunction at Chernobyl mirrored the rot endemic in Soviet society at that time. With many, good, competent people in the Soviet system, it's a shame they were bound to that system. Otherwise, Chernobyl AND the fall of the Soviet Union may never have occurred.
I don't think that's what this does. There were hundreds of incidents at NPPs. While they showed various deficiencies they didn't pose a risk at the scale of Chernobyl, although the situation could perhaps be more interesting in cases.
Thanks for the great information. I was young when this happened but I still remember the news about it. Seems that there was a lot of things being covered up about it back then.
It's a good thing we have a video called the "dark side" of Chernobyl. Everyone else just talks about how well-run, level-headed, and corruption-free things were at the plant. 😅 I jest, and i did enjoy the video!
20:26 Locksmith is most likely a mistranslation. It's more likely "metal worker/fabricator" but the old name stuck on them in multiple languages. In hungarian "lakatos" literally translates to "padlocker" or "locksmith" but it was a name for general metal fabricators up until the... 80s I think?
you should make a supercut of all yout videos so far in a way that at least loosely fits together. in a time where watch time is king, it might bring in some insane views
Many of the mentioned accidents, are pretty normal in the industrial plants, but the frequency here was a little too high, and very little precautions were made to prevent them. The leaks, contamination, etc, that is not acceptable, and in general show how poorly they were managing things, and ignoring safety. The steeling, poor quality replacement, or substitutes, and general rush, and other are of course also criminal, and sign of the times and economy of the time. Indeed, then organizational issues, silencing all criticism, where even bigger issues. And the fact that issues were known, and if they were mitigated earlier disaster would be prevented, is just crazy. I was in west-north Poland at the time, age 1.
Its a good movie. Very detailed. I personally was not aware of accidents before 1986. The movie shows that we should not build something so toxic and dangerous if we are not able to stay civilized. The only thing that is missing is the aftermath of 1986. How many people died and how many more will die from cancer etc....Even today you will find fresh bone from fish and wolfs still radioactive and toxic.
24:45 how exactly does one cause an explosion while instaling waterproofing? The spark part i get but wtf were they waterproofing with gasoline. This would be a comedy if it weren't tragic.
5:08 - this isn’t that shocking as Bryukhanov’s technical background was in thermal power plant engineering while Dyatlov’s was nuclear power engineering. In my mind I can see pressure to downgrade one of the positions coming externally and being about pay structures, drawing in Bryukhanov, and then Fomin lengthily describing how difficult and vital turbines were to the power generation. As far as I’m aware the most horrific power plant accidents in the Soviet Union prior to 1986 involved turbine failures, which can be spectacularly deadly due to the high weight and momentum of the turning rotors.
Hi I really enjoy your videos, could you make one explaining why there were actually 2 explosions after 1:23:44 and the theories of what caused these? I'm interested to know what the second explosion was after the lid was thrown off.
I'm not going to lie, I was initially disappointed that there wasn't some Pink Floyd somehow tied into this, but the video made up for that disappointment. I dig this video lol
Day one: "I finally got a job at Chernobyl! This is a dream come true." Day two: "They got us wiping down fuel rods with rags. My hands are killing me!" Day three: Chernobyl now hiring!
So, the Soviets not only had the worst construction practices in the history of building things, they also had some of the worst management systems as well. Then put that on top of them essentially running their reactors ragged to meet some fantasy quotum, and presto, one INES level 7 a.c.c.i.dent for all to enjoy. Unbelievable.
The dogs of Pripyat are beautiful, sweet animals and even with a war ongoing people are helping them. Also I bet it glows pretty nice at night. That's all I got.
Regarding the last point, is it really Bureaucracy? I'm not sure what were the extent of the work to modify AZ5, but it does sound like something which can only be implemented during a maintenance window. Were there other maintenance windows in 1983, 1984 or 1985?
me 10 years go: how did chernobyl explode?
me right now: how did chernobly not explode sooner???
no kidding!!!!
rbmks dont explode youre delusional
me but with the soviet union as a whole
Soviet nuclear reactors are equivolent to the plane-shaped shrines built by pacific cargo cults after WW2.
Only difference being the Soviet reactors could fly and the shrines could not
@@ryanparker4996 Then the PWR is like a dug out canoe compared to what nuclear reactors should be.
When Chernobyl guy started mentioning accidents at the CNPP.
And after 5 accidents he didn't stop listing accidents I knew today was gonna be special💀
"What happened in chernobyl?
"The nuclear power plant was looted, on fire, looted again, broken, flooding, on fire, falling apart, looted again, walls collapsing, on fire, one more flooding and finish off with a fire."
"And the last one was when it blew up?"
"Oh no, i just stopped to take a breath, we are just halfway through the list until we get to the reactor blowing up."
@@KorianHUN I think you missed a couple of thefts, collapses, and fatal falls in this first half of the accident list...
Lmao imagine entering the control room and seeing everything missing because some random dude stole everything 💀
...... for the 3rd time lol
"Ahh shit. Ramirez you fucker I TOLD YOU TO USE THE LOCK!"
Welcome to socialism...
@@connorjohnson4402i wish i could be a fly on the wall during that discovery 😂
Sounds like the nuclear power plant in The Simpsons was safer than Chernobyl.
Homer Simpson had more brains than the whole Chernobyl control room combined
He did it for her
Sippybird go boop
Have you watched the rest of this guys videos?
Listening to the sheer amount of things being stolen during construction. Like in Czechoslovakia in those years. There was a saying: One who does not steal (state owned things), is stealing from his own family. During every construction material was "lost". Many family houses, cottages and huts were build with nobody asking where the material for their construction came from, yet everyone knew where they came from. It was absolutely "the norm" that a construction of any facility needed way more concrete, bricks, panels, etc. than was in the plan for said facility. Regardless if it was a power plant, culture house, school or hospital. The amount of raw materials used to finish any structure was much higher than what was actually physically used on the site. At least the structure to be built was finished within norms, according to plan, only the material consumption was way bigger. Not like some countries that placed empty oil cans into what were supposed to be reinforced concrete structural walls. Or even if not as bad, cutting costs by reducing the amount of rebar or changing material properties for cheaper ones. Because price was not relevant. Things were built to specifications and nobody had any incentive not to do so. Because nobody checked where and how material "disappeared" during construction. Raw material was being delivered until it was done according to plan.
Wow.
In communism everything was common, so technically it was not a thief 🤣
It was in all socialist countires of EE.
Many times it was that some things were not possible to buy even if you have a money.
Economy of permanent deficit.
@@markusw7833 The seven wonders of Communist Socialism:
1. Everyone had a job.
2. Even though everyone had a job, no one was doing anything.
3. Even though no one was doing anything, the plan was fulfilled above 100%.
4. Even though the plan was fulfilled more than 100%, there was a shortage of goods and services.
5. Even though there was a shortage of goods and services, everyone had everything.
6. Even though everyone had everything, everyone stole.
7. Even though everyone stole, nothing was missing anywhere.
@@erikziak1249 These are fantastic. And very true. Saw it with my own eyes growing up in the USSR.
We like to think capitalism and private enterprise is more efficient, but having moved to the US I can say it's a very optimistic over-simplification. More red tape exists in many areas vs the USSR even, there's stealing and profiteering on a vast industrial scale (while yes, not as much petty theft by the plebs), and there's plenty of dysfunction in private companies small and large.
The US's vast industrial and economic might arises from protective geography and Mississippi giving cheap ocean trade route access to much of the inside of the continent, compounded by emerging unscathed & economically advantaged from the WWII, compounded by the Bretton Woods and Petrodollar enabling the Fed to print USD at will with near-0 fiscal consequence for decades, funneling it via DARPA to the likes of Boeing and Google to build an unmatched industrial, scientific, and military might. Even cultural influence was govt-sponsored (e.g. google "the CIA and Pollock"). Take away the impact of all that free govt money and FAT contracts of a federal agency rallying public money towards a multi-year plan (i.e. de-facto socialist financing), and the purely capitalist free-market private economy of the US would be the size of Spaine's - in a country the size of the US obviously it'd have been struggling - not going anywhere good or fast.
USSR and the socialist system did have shortages, uninspiring consumer goods, lack of motivation for *some* folks (not all), but to say the US won thanks to the capitalist system is 90...95% bupkis.
dont forget abuse and suppression of citizens
Imagine trying to resign or retire, and when you hand in your resignation letter your boss tears it to pieces in front of you, and then tells you to get back to work. That's insane
Thats communism at its finest
The Soviet system in all its... ahem... glory...?
Many people hugely underestimating how bad soviet system and communism was, 35 years after communism has collapsed there are still a lot of signs of that horrible system.
And then there are few russians and russia simps that glorify this kind of bs. Unbelievable
Many people hugely underestimating how bad soviet system and communism was, 35 years after communism has collapsed there are still a lot of signs of that hor rible system.
And then there are few russians and russia simps that glorify this kind of bs. Unbelievable
p.s. ah yeah, youtube is deleting my comments, why not. I wonder what he is hating about this
It happened to me twice. I'm still on the job.
"Three units are ready, with another well on the way." 😂😂
I see what you did there.
I think someone else built his own rbmk 1000 reactor at home If so much material and equipment was stolen 💀
I heard that Romania somehow got their hands on one
The thumbnail is hilarious, absolutely brilliant
this dude is brilliant, his channel is one of the best on this site
Only One Colour You Like
(bright blue from Cherenkov radiation)
Dark side of Moon reference
I'd buy that T shirt
From the acclaimed irradiated rock group Pink Fluoride
Babe wakeup, new analysis of Soviet bureaucratic failure just dropped.
It's not any more Soviet than Columbia and Challenger and Fukushima, Boeing MCAS, subprime market crash, etc. Human hubris and group-think compounding and compounding and compounding while they get away with it & nothing too terrible happens year after year, till several unfortunate things line up & it blows up in everyone's face.
Why is she asleep? It's the middle of the day.
@@AlexKarasev I would agree with that statement. This is a mechanism that happens with all controlled operations.
@@mikeall7012 It's some sort of "meme".
@@murob2347 I think (as callous as it is to say that) the mechanism is valid. If nothing bad happens with something, our brains are programed to gradually take it more & more for granted, thus freeing up the attention and energy for new areas. We've all these disasters not because this mechanism fails us but because it works TOO WELL most of the time.
Take Boeing MCAS - a terrible shortcut to save on pilot training, enabled by non-redundant AoA sensors - which delibereately were non-redundant b/c otherwise FAA review would flag this system as safety-critical and mandate pilot training anyway - defeating the "savings". So Boeing got caught on this one thing after a century-plus of doing this non-stop and only suffering the consequences a few times. Their competitors who did it by-the-book and didn't cut corners, weren't as competitive, and either Boeing now owns them or they're bankrupt.
24:36 Imagine that you are constantly dealing with accidents and thefts of equipment just to find out that the canteen just exploded
We are all carrying Chernobyl inside us. I remember volunteering for an isotope body scan in high school for STUK (the radiation safety association of Finland) when I was 16. My cesium-137 levels were elevated and overall body radiation double the normal levels because we had eaten tons of sauces and foods made from local mushrooms the summer before. It was 15 years ago so the dose from that cesium has built up quite a bit compared to the average person.
I've tried looking for the paper they gave me specifying the isotopes out of curiosity, but I just can't find it.
Also if anyone's interested, they came to our high school with a mobile scanner installed in a van (former ambulance or similar I guess) and wanted a boy and a girl from every year grade. They were doing a study on the effects of the chernobyl fallout on kids and teens in 2010 or 2011. It was like a bathtub looking thing with a massive chunky machine on top (big industrial gamma spectroscope I guess) and they made me lay down there for 15 minutes iirc. I haven't called them or checked their website tho, I think i might actually do that next 👀
Luckily for you, Ceasium 137 seems to have very poor bio-accumulation and a biological half-life of 70-110days, while yes you get a tempoary dose it won't stay forever in your body✌️
@@Litepaw Interesting.
@@SacUnDruz That's very relieving to know. And honestly makes a lot of sense. At least it wasn't something nastier like strontium-90.
If anyone ever asks you to beatbox, just ask for a geiger counter
Fun connection: The Dark Side of the Moon contained a track called "Money" and it would seem that a lack of that was the main cause of The Dark Side of Chernobyl.
The thumbnail and the title of the video is absolutely brilliant!
I have studied Chernobyl for years. I knew reactor 3 had a near meltdown, but I was not aware all the other accidents and/or stupidity happened there over the years. Probably because the focus is always on reactor 4.
I’d love to see you do a deep dive into the Kyshtym Disaster. It seems like all of the videos on RUclips are either dated or barebones. I love the details you provide so I understand if it may be difficult for you to dig into any Soviet archives from the 50’s.
Thanks so much for posting such a Great Video. I had no idea how bad it was. All my best, Jim
I saw this title and thought "is there a bright side of Chernobyl?" But yes, there is; your excellent videos.
lmao, btw love your vids, and I find it sad to see how badly your trip in Switzerland went. As a train enthusiast there, I always thought that Swiss Trains are quite accessible, but I guess I was wrong
The glow at night near the NPP's pretty bright.
Now this makes more sense:
Another time, Tolya woke up suddenly, ran to a window that was cracked open, and said, “Look, the doors are open! They’ll loot everything, and we won’t be able to finish the reactor!” And I said, “Go to sleep. I’ll take watch.” He went back to bed, and again didn’t remember anything in the morning.
I feel like Yakity Sax should have been playing over the accident list. It’s amazing that anything got done! It’s kind of hilarious that the kgb were tapping the phones but they couldn’t stop some dorks from stealing the buttons and switches
0_0 so in other words, it's a miracle this didn't go *nuclear* sooner.
No I am not apologizing for that horrible pun.
Pun approved :)
its not sin if its true
I'd like this comment, but I don't want to ruin the funny number.
I had exposure to the radiation from Chernobyl when the US Army wanted to make a show of force in Germany. We were out marching in the rain made up of the fallout from Chernobyl on May 1st 1986. The result is that I have a nodule on my thyroid as well as lesions on my head, neck and shoulders. The biopsy revealed that it is consistent with exposure to radiation. This happened in Regan’s peacetime Army. I’m being treated for it now. There are probably more people suffering from this same exposure. I was literally singing, “I’m a Radioactive” at the time. ☢️
You need to write a book on Chernobyl. I would sure as hell buy it.
Try not to get robbed (and have multiple trespassers): chernobyl fails
Building an Atomic Reactor on the Cheap, what could possibly go wrong?
Great job on putting out so many videos sir. I enjoy every one and look forward to the next. Thank you
This is the video that shoud be shown to people who are scared of nuclear energy because of chernobyl.
Many are amazed when seeing the inside of Unit 4 after the disaster that all the buttons have been nicked. Hardly surprising when they were also getting nicked before the explosion as well. I'm surprised that it ever got to being opened when bit's of the building kept failing and corroding and bits being nicked even before it was in operation.
How does an RBMK reactor explode? Comrade, it is hard to know why many more didn't and sooner. PS, would you like to buy some buttons that probably don't work as desired either?
How does an RMBK reactor explode? Because its built like a bloody grenade thats how 😂
And just like Valery Legasov said " because its cheaper" lol and that's why they didn't use properly enriched uranium in their cores because it was also much cheaper than doing it the right way.
Oooof, cringeposting now?
Compared to radation-related deaths, more people have died indirectly from the stigma of Chernobyl stopping nuclear energy from being used more widely. Coal mining kills and gives illnesses to more per year than nuclear accidents have in all of human history.
Is that actually true? Yes or no, still an interesting perspective I didn't consider!
It’s almost certainly true.
@@CartoonSlug coal mining is a very dangerous line of work. I'm also not even accounting for how many miners get lung and skin diseases from working in mines. The amount of people who got radiation-related illnesses from Chernobyl and Fukushima is high and undetermined, but still much lower than the desths and illnesses from hundreds of years of coal mining that's guaranteed. Two major nuclear meltdowns, but how many coal mine collapses ans explosions have we had?
Valid point!
Indeed, it is all dark. As an aside, I wonder how much of the stolen equipment found its way to other state projects?
Like the RCAF pfp!
I’m curious what the thieves did with all the stolen buttons and switches. I mean, what else are they going to use them for??
Black market Radio Shack, I guess.
Built their own NPP.
Can we all just agree that the Soviet RMBK program was a bit of a shit show?
A bit of an understatement.
Just like everything they make
As Valery Lagasov said "because it cheaper" lol
I didn't know there is a bright side of Chernobyl...
There isn't.
@@wilfriedklaebe That's why I wonder about the video title.
@@PlaywithJunk Watch the last few seconds 😉
The dogs of Chernobyl are not just beautiful but incredibly friendly and amazing survivors 🐶
@@Ottobon One of the oddest charities I regularly donate to. I hope they get all those sweet fuzz balls out of there that can be adopted and implement population control for the rest.
I love your Videos! Chernobyl is my favorite theme of interest since i was a kid. My father was on several Work assignments lasting several weeks to work on the water supply and desposal of nuclear power plants in my country.
Nuclear power in general and chernobyl are so fascinating.
Where do you get your sources from? Your are uploading so many videos in a short time its amazing. I have been dealing with this for about 20 years and im still learning new rhings from you! How do you get all these informations from? Keep up the excelent work!
I may be wrong but it sounds like the chuckle brothers were in charge of construction
I am subscribing after this masterpiece
Nice work man
Hey! Thanks so much for your great videos and work!
I was wondering if it would be somehow possible for you to share your source material, e.g. photos, videos etc?
I would be happy to get in contact with you in person. I was always interested in the Chornobyl topic but have never encountered anywhere such an amount of unique material. Most of things I see in your videos I have never seen anywhere. So would be more than pleased to possibly get in touch and discuss this. Many thanks in advance!
That site, was NOT meant to work, at all! I can see that now.. WOW
I'll hopefully have the chance to ask when there are less comments. How many kilovolts was the safety bus of Unit 4's electrical distribution grid?
While I'm not 100% certain on this, but it is at least the number mentioned in the rundown program - 6kV.
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@@thatchernobylguy2915 6 kV bus for two K-500-65/3000 indirectly means that you have zero physics knowledge bro... It is just a sum of Its capacity. xddd
Can you imagine the cables? On 500 MW x2 run on 6kV? Bro for the love of god do some basics physics before you staŕt calling yourself history physics expert.
You are feeding already uneducated plebes with further bullshit. Disgusting.
As per usual - TBB-500 is of course like all Its derivatives synchronous device. Running output is 20kV with margin at 26kV, this is then transformed into 500kV. From this there are further transformation lines into united system - 330 and 750 kV. You can say the safety margin is like 10% added in every circuit mentioned.
Many of those generators are still running - from former East Germany to Far east Asia.
Plant was a lemon from the start.
Wow! I was not aware of much of this! Thank you.
To me it has always been at big surprise that the Chernobyl accident could happen nuclear should come with a lot of precautions. But looking back and knowing the history of power plant it was just a matter of time before something catastrophic would happen
That was really interesting. Thank you. You have a new subscriber
Well, this actually makes my workplace seem organised and functional. I never thought I'd say that sentence in my life. 🤣 What a tragedy.
The systemic dysfunction at Chernobyl mirrored the rot endemic in Soviet society at that time. With many, good, competent people in the Soviet system, it's a shame they were bound to that system. Otherwise, Chernobyl AND the fall of the Soviet Union may never have occurred.
Love the thumbnail!!
Another great one. This one is sure food for thought.
Wow the button half life was way lower than expected.
This goes to show that a seriously catastrophic incident at CAES was literally inevitable.
ChNPP was considered one of the best plants in the country. It was the same or worse everywhere else.
I don't think that's what this does. There were hundreds of incidents at NPPs. While they showed various deficiencies they didn't pose a risk at the scale of Chernobyl, although the situation could perhaps be more interesting in cases.
It was very bright for a few seconds...
Welcome to the Machine!
Thanks for the great information. I was young when this happened but I still remember the news about it. Seems that there was a lot of things being covered up about it back then.
It's a good thing we have a video called the "dark side" of Chernobyl. Everyone else just talks about how well-run, level-headed, and corruption-free things were at the plant. 😅
I jest, and i did enjoy the video!
I'm just here for "The Bright Side of Chernobyl" jokes & sarcasm
so bright we don't need eyes to see it
@@EnclaveTrooper1 so dark, it's worth it
when I heard the building got robbed due to no fencing, made me snicker really hard. Doomed from the start.
Oh perfect, I've only heard good things when it comes to Chernobyl, so I'm looking forward to hearing the negative stuff
Spot on analysis
20:26 Locksmith is most likely a mistranslation. It's more likely "metal worker/fabricator" but the old name stuck on them in multiple languages. In hungarian "lakatos" literally translates to "padlocker" or "locksmith" but it was a name for general metal fabricators up until the... 80s I think?
you should make a supercut of all yout videos so far in a way that at least loosely fits together. in a time where watch time is king, it might bring in some insane views
You know it's bad when the explosion of reactor 4 wasnt the worst part of this plant's history
Love the pink Floyd refrence!
Many of the mentioned accidents, are pretty normal in the industrial plants, but the frequency here was a little too high, and very little precautions were made to prevent them. The leaks, contamination, etc, that is not acceptable, and in general show how poorly they were managing things, and ignoring safety. The steeling, poor quality replacement, or substitutes, and general rush, and other are of course also criminal, and sign of the times and economy of the time.
Indeed, then organizational issues, silencing all criticism, where even bigger issues. And the fact that issues were known, and if they were mitigated earlier disaster would be prevented, is just crazy.
I was in west-north Poland at the time, age 1.
The "dual-reactor building" sure was good looking.
This is totally crazy.Time bomb.TERRIBLE
Very well done Sir !
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon…
Can we get a "lighter side of Chernobyl" follow-up?
I'll see what I can do...
@thatchernobylguy2915 we need more mop!
Well it was pretty bright when all the nuclear fuel was burning 🙃
The blue light means 'fun'
Also, I need the thumbnail as a T-Shirt, and I need it yesterday. 😹❤
Amazing that the wildlife in the area is thriving !? Radiation!
Its a good movie. Very detailed. I personally was not aware of accidents before 1986. The movie shows that we should not build something so toxic and dangerous if we are not able to stay civilized. The only thing that is missing is the aftermath of 1986. How many people died and how many more will die from cancer etc....Even today you will find fresh bone from fish and wolfs still radioactive and toxic.
24:45 how exactly does one cause an explosion while instaling waterproofing? The spark part i get but wtf were they waterproofing with gasoline. This would be a comedy if it weren't tragic.
I would like to hear about the implied bright side of Chernobyl please.
5:08 - this isn’t that shocking as Bryukhanov’s technical background was in thermal power plant engineering while Dyatlov’s was nuclear power engineering. In my mind I can see pressure to downgrade one of the positions coming externally and being about pay structures, drawing in Bryukhanov, and then Fomin lengthily describing how difficult and vital turbines were to the power generation. As far as I’m aware the most horrific power plant accidents in the Soviet Union prior to 1986 involved turbine failures, which can be spectacularly deadly due to the high weight and momentum of the turning rotors.
After like five accidents the place should have been shut down
What are they wiping down at 4:40?
Cleaning the place up for when the bakers at 21:07 to start their daily bread run.
Hi I really enjoy your videos, could you make one explaining why there were actually 2 explosions after 1:23:44 and the theories of what caused these? I'm interested to know what the second explosion was after the lid was thrown off.
Extremely well-made video kudos
Finally. Someone has the guts to expose the downsides of Chernobyl
Really interesting video thanks very much. The Soviet system and bureaucracy absolutely fascinates me.
18:38 so this is it, this is where the hoodlums in the woods got their start.
As opposed to the cute and cuddly side of Chernobyl
I'm not going to lie, I was initially disappointed that there wasn't some Pink Floyd somehow tied into this, but the video made up for that disappointment. I dig this video lol
Your video; "the bright side of Chernobyl" was much better 😅
Another banger
Thank you!
I love the insinuation that there's a bright side to this disaster lol
And all you create, and all you destroy
Day one: "I finally got a job at Chernobyl! This is a dream come true." Day two: "They got us wiping down fuel rods with rags. My hands are killing me!" Day three: Chernobyl now hiring!
So, the Soviets not only had the worst construction practices in the history of building things, they also had some of the worst management systems as well. Then put that on top of them essentially running their reactors ragged to meet some fantasy quotum, and presto, one INES level 7 a.c.c.i.dent for all to enjoy. Unbelievable.
When was there ever a bright side?
I haven’t watched a single second yet, and I am sure I am going to love it, but what was the light side to the Chernobyl accident 😂
"The Dark Side of Chernobyl" - I'm thinking, 'is there a bright side?' - Oh right. But that too, is the dark side of it.
The dogs of Pripyat are beautiful, sweet animals and even with a war ongoing people are helping them.
Also I bet it glows pretty nice at night.
That's all I got.
So, you’re telling me there’s a bright side? Yes!
Have you done anything on American reactor problems? I'm going to check, but just the problems happening during the construction, just WOW!
I love those last words.
Who clicked on this video just because of Pink Floyd?
1:21 Wait, *mostly* ??
My reaction to the title "as opposed to the light hearted, fun side of Chernobyl" hahah
Regarding the last point, is it really Bureaucracy? I'm not sure what were the extent of the work to modify AZ5, but it does sound like something which can only be implemented during a maintenance window. Were there other maintenance windows in 1983, 1984 or 1985?
Every year there are maintenance shutdowns :)
Glad you have decent taste in music.
Who is listening to Fomin's lecture in that legendary photo?